The Megyn Kelly Show
Anti-ICE Activist Playbook Revealed, MN Legal Fight, Tepe Murders Suspect In Court: AM Update 1/13
13 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What recent actions has DHS taken in Minneapolis regarding immigration enforcement?
good morning everyone i'm megan kelly it's tuesday january 13th 2026 and this is your am update as dhs surges more assets to minnesota a deeper look at what far left agitators are doing to try to thwart the federal government the obvious targeting of minnesota for our diversity is a violation of the constitution and of federal law
Officials in Minnesota and Illinois each launching legal challenges against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts. The man suspected of killing Ohio couple Spencer and Monique Tepe appearing in court for the first time. A full report on the gruesome story. And a former Trump official lands a key job with Facebook parent company Meta.
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Chapter 2: What legal challenges are Illinois and Minnesota launching against the Trump administration?
Find out more at GuardYourCard.com and consider telling Congress to guard your card. As protesters continue to stalk, harass, and attempt to intimidate federal agents in Minnesota after the deadly confrontation with Rene Good, who was a trained ICE agitator, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announcing Sunday on Fox that hundreds more agents will be deployed to Minneapolis.
There'll be hundreds more in order to allow our ICE and our Border Patrol individuals that are working in Minneapolis to do so safely. We're going to continue to, if they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that's a crime. And we will hold them accountable to those consequences.
So unfortunately, when you don't have the partnership of the city, Mayor Frey and Governor Walz have been very clear that They're going to continue their rhetoric. They're going to continue to put criminals and corrupt illegal aliens above the people that live in that city and in that state.
They've said they're not going to help us, so we'll make sure that we protect our officers, but we also follow through on making sure these criminals are brought to justice.
Secretary Noem saying agents in Minnesota are specifically focusing on arresting and removing sex trafficking and child trafficking offenders.
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Chapter 3: Who is the suspect in the Tepe murders, and what are the charges against him?
Social media video showing a tense situation yesterday Dozens of agitators arriving to the aftermath of a scene where agents had just rear-ended a man's car. The AP reporting protesters flocking to the area, blowing whistles, shouting at and surrounding agents. The feds deploying tear gas to disperse the crowd. allowing officers to exit the commotion.
These confrontational tactics echoing guidance promoted by Minnesota Ice Watch, the activist group Renee Good reportedly belonged to, now under renewed scrutiny following the deadly confrontation between Good and an ICE agent. Minnesota Ice Watch encouraging so-called direct action, advocating for outside activists to physically insert themselves into law enforcement operations.
President Trump on Sunday from Air Force One discussing the Renee Good incident as part of a larger national trend where agitators force confrontations with law enforcement.
The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement. You saw that.
Chapter 4: What tactics are activists using to obstruct federal law enforcement in Minnesota?
They were harassing, they were following for... for days and for hours. And I think, frankly, they're professional agitators. And I'd like to find out and we are going to find out who's paying for it with their brand new signs and all the different things. But these are professional agitators and law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff.
What that woman and what her friend and what their other friends were doing to law enforcement, not just ICE, law enforcement is outrageous.
The New York Post reporting Good got connected to Minnesota Ice Watch through her six-year-old son's social justice-focused charter school. The Post describing Ice Watch as a, quote, loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city.
The Minnesota Ice Watch Instagram account remains public, linking to hundreds of posts containing community guidance, encouragement, and legal resources for its followers.
Chapter 5: How has the situation escalated between protesters and federal agents in Minnesota?
Ice Watch instructing its activists to let the so-called victim, meaning the criminal illegal immigrant, into their own car, block the cars of the, quote, kidnappers, meaning ICE, with multiple civilian cars, and, quote, ask white witnesses to put their bodies in front of the person that's being kidnapped.
The account also sometimes providing live reporting on the location of law enforcement officers throughout the city. These are methods to stop ICE from catching and removing criminals, a disturbingly high number of whom are sex offenders and child predators. Here's MK True Crime contributor and lifetime prosecutor Matt Murphy.
These are some of the people that are most dedicated to getting sex offenders arrested, putting them in prison, and then ultimately deporting them if they're not here legally. Right. And in 2023, ICE arrested Four thousand three hundred and ninety sex offenders. It's a part of their job. That was the last year of Joe Biden.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of the lawsuits filed by Illinois and Minnesota against federal immigration policies?
And nobody said a friggin word because back then, shockingly, we all kind of agreed it's a bit of a bipartisan issue. We're going to protect kids who aren't political at all. Children deserve the protection of all adults, regardless of what side of the political aisle they are. Right. So in 2024, last year, first year of President Trump, ICE arrested 16,552 sex offenders.
And that is their priority. They had a special operation in the state of Florida called Operation Dirtbag. And that's the federal law enforcement officials, the women and men that do that are critical to protecting our kids.
National Review reporting on guidance from the Ice Watch account on how to, quote, de-arrest these individuals after they've been arrested by law enforcement by, quote, physically removing an arrestee from a law enforcement officer's grip. Law enforcement officials repeatedly warning this guidance is dumb.
Chapter 7: What evidence connects the suspect to the Tepe murders?
What they say is it's not protected protest. It's illegal and it's dangerous. Here, a flashback to Chicago Police Chief Larry Snelling last October.
Federal agents, ICE, HSI, are officers. They are agents of law enforcement. If you box them in with vehicles, it is reasonable for them to believe that they are being ambushed. And that this could end in a deadly situation. And it's reasonable for them to use force based on those conditions. Do not box in any law enforcement officer. You are breaking the law when you do that.
Chapter 8: How is Meta's new leadership indicative of its strategic shift in focus?
And you are putting yourself in danger following law enforcement agents around. The question is why? What do you plan on doing? It's also reasonable for them to believe that you're eventually going to do harm to them.
Two Democrat-led states, Illinois and Minnesota, launching separate lawsuits yesterday against the Trump administration relating to ongoing federal immigration enforcement efforts. The state of Illinois, as well as the city of Chicago, filing suit in the Northern District of Illinois, accusing U.S.
Customs and Border Protection of occupying the city and state in order to, quote, coerce plaintiffs to abandon their policies, which value and respect the state's immigrants and and devote their resources to further the immigration policies of the current administration.
Illinois state law restricts police from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement, drawing the ire of the administration. More from the filing, quote, The federal government's menacing, violent, and unlawful incursion impedes Illinois and Chicago from carrying out core sovereign functions in violation of the Tenth Amendment.
Illinois seeking a court order barring CBP from carrying out civil immigration enforcement in the state. The latest move coming after months of legal conflict with the Trump administration over immigration enforcement. In September, the Fed's launching Operation Midway Blitz, a sweeping surge targeting criminal illegal aliens.
DHS officials reporting the surge has netted thousands of arrests in the months since, despite public resistance from state and local officials. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin responding in a statement, quote, This is a baseless lawsuit, and we look forward to proving that in court.
In Minnesota, Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Democrat, filing a lawsuit on behalf of the state and cities Minneapolis and St. Paul against DHS. The Trump administration in December, beginning the surge of thousands of immigration agents and investigators into the region. responding to widespread allegations of fraud committed by the Somali immigrant community.
Tensions escalating following an incident last week involving an ICE agent fatally shooting a woman disobeying police commands to exit her vehicle and instead driving her car into the alarmed officer. AG Ellison referring to the DHS crackdown yesterday in a press briefing as, quote, in essence, a federal invasion. More from Ellison on the lawsuit.
This has to stop. It just has to stop. We allege that the obvious targeting of Minnesota for our diversity, for our democracy, and our differences of opinion with the federal government is a violation of the Constitution and of federal law.
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